Poptimists Top 100 Top 40 Singles of 2006

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

no. / artist / title / no. of votes / share of vote / month of year (1 = January etc.)

1. Lily Allen - LDN ( 29 : 74.4 ) 9
2. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh ( 28 : 84.8 ) 10
3. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy ( 28 : 87.5 ) 4
4. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous ( 26 : 65 ) 9
5. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man ( 26 : 76.5 ) 7
6. Nelly Furtado - Maneater ( 26 : 96.3 ) 6
7. The Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' ( 25 : 62.5 ) 9
8. Lily Allen - Smile ( 24 : 66.7 ) 7
9. Justin Timberlake - Sexyback ( 24 : 70.6 ) 8
10. Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind ( 24 : 70.6 ) 8
11. Rihanna - S.O.S. ( 24 : 77.4 ) 8
12. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes ( 23 : 65.7 ) 7
13. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends ( 22 : 62.9 ) 7
14. Kelis ft. Too Short - Bossy ( 21 : 52.5 ) 9
15. Jamelia - Beware Of The Dog ( 21 : 67.7 ) 12
16. Sugababes - Red Dress ( 19 : 79.2 ) 3
17. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces ( 18 : 52.9 ) 7
18. Alesha - Lipstick ( 18 : 52.9 ) 8
19. Beyonce ft. Jay-Z - Déjà Vu ( 18 : 52.9 ) 8
20. Beyonce - Irreplaceable ( 18 : 54.5 ) 10
21. Amy Winehouse - Rehab ( 18 : 54.5 ) 10
22. The Go Team - Ladyflash ( 18 : 75 ) 2
23. Belle & Sebastian - Funny Little Frog ( 17 : 54.8 ) 1
24. Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History ( 17 : 70.8 ) 3
25. Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy ( 16 : 40 ) 9
26. Fergie - London Bridge ( 16 : 40 ) 9
27. Cassie - Me And U ( 16 : 47.1 ) 8
28. The Pet Shop Boys - I'm With Stupid ( 16 : 50 ) 5
29. Hot Chip - Boy From School ( 16 : 50 ) 5
30. Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up ( 16 : 51.6 ) 12
31. Girls Aloud - I Think We're Alone Now ( 16 : 53.3 ) 12
32. Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse ( 16 : 66.7 ) 2
33. Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah ( 16 : 66.7 ) 6
34. Madonna - Sorry ( 16 : 69.6 ) 3
35. All Saints - Rock Steady ( 16 : 69.6 ) 11
36. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Make-Up ( 15 : 41.7 ) 7
37. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole ( 15 : 41.7 ) 7
38. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me ( 15 : 48.4 ) 4
39. Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen / L Wells ( 15 : 48.4 ) 4
40. Hot Chip - Over And Over ( 15 : 62.5 ) 3
41. Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - My Love ( 15 : 65.2 ) 11
42. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child ( 14 : 40 ) 7
43. Madonna - Get Together ( 14 : 41.2 ) 8
44. Missy Elliott - We Run This ( 14 : 41.2 ) 8
45. Similou - All This Love ( 14 : 46.7 ) 8
46. Delays - Valentine ( 14 : 60.9 ) 3
47. Sugababes - Easy ( 14 : 60.9 ) 11
48. Take That - Patience ( 14 : 60.9 ) 11
49. Jamelia - Something About You ( 13 : 32.5 ) 9
50. Lil Chris - Checkin It Out ( 13 : 33.3 ) 9
51. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks ( 13 : 38.2 ) 8
52. My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade ( 13 : 39.4 ) 10
53. Streets - When You Wasn't Famous ( 13 : 40.6 ) 4
54. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
55. LL Cool J ft. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
56. Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
57. Daz Sampson - Teenage Life ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
58. Christina Milian ft. Young Jeezy - Say I ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
59. Busta Rhymes - Touch It ( 13 : 40.6 ) 5
60. Mylo ft. Freeform Five - Muscle Car ( 13 : 41.9 ) 1
61. Will Young - All Time Love ( 13 : 41.9 ) 1
62. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue ( 13 : 41.9 ) 4
63. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats ( 13 : 43.3 ) 1
64. Cassie - Long Way To Go ( 13 : 43.3 ) 10
65. Lil Chris - Gettin' Enough ( 13 : 43.3 ) 12
66. Lily Allen - Littlest Things ( 13 : 43.3 ) 12
67. Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away ( 13 : 54.2 ) 3
68. Guillemots - Trains To Brazil ( 12 : 30.8 ) 9
69. Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On ( 12 : 36.7 ) 7
70. Sway - Little Derek ( 12 : 38.7 ) 1
71. Shakira ft. Wyclef - Hips Don't Lie ( 12 : 48 ) 6
72. The Ordinary Boys ft. Lady Sovereign - Nine 2 Five ( 12 : 52.2 ) 5
73. Robbie Williams - Rudebox ( 11 : 27.5 ) 9
74. The Pet Shop Boys - Minimal ( 11 : 32.4 ) 8
75. Pink - Stupid Girls ( 11 : 34.4 ) 4
76. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion ( 11 : 34.4 ) 4
77. Beyonce Knowles ft. Slim Thug - Check On It ( 11 : 35.5 ) 1
78. Pink - U And Ur Hand ( 11 : 36.7 ) 8
79. T.I. - Why You Wanna ( 11 : 44 ) 6
80. Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend ( 11 : 45.8 ) 2
81. Shakira - Don't Bother ( 11 : 45.8 ) 3
82. The Automatic - Monster ( 11 : 45.8 ) 6
83. The Pussycat Dolls - I Don't Need A Man ( 10 : 25.6 ) 9
84. The Pussycat Dolls ft. Snoop Dogg - Buttons ( 10 : 27.8 ) 7
85. Guillemots - Made-Up Love Song #43 ( 10 : 27.8 ) 7
86. Will Young - Who Am I ( 10 : 31.2 ) 5
87. Beatfreakz - Somebody's Watching Me ( 10 : 31.2 ) 5
88. Nina Simone - Ain't Got No…(I've Got Life) ( 10 : 31.2 ) 5
89. Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away ( 10 : 31.2 ) 5
90. Kanye West ft. Adam Levine - Heard 'Em Say ( 10 : 33.3 ) 1
91. The Futureheads - Skip To The End ( 10 : 37 ) 6
92. Paul Oakenfold - Faster Kill Pussycat ( 10 : 37 ) 6
93. Dannii Minogue - So Under Pressure ( 10 : 40 ) 6
94. The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Voyager remix) ( 10 : 41.7 ) 2
95. Gorillaz - Kids With Guns / El Manana ( 10 : 41.7 ) 4
96. Infernal - From Paris To Berlin ( 10 : 41.7 ) 4
97. The Rapture - Get Myself Into It ( 9 : 22.5 ) 9
98. Lupe Fiasco ft. Jill Scott - Daydreamin' ( 9 : 23.1 ) 9
99. Rihanna - Unfaithful ( 9 : 23.3 ) 7
100. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway ( 9 : 25 ) 7

Thanks to all voting poptimists!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

> The Source ft. Candi Staton

Will feature in the countdown EVERY year

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yes. i disqualified Slade and The Pogues in the end but I couldn't remember how different this Voyager remix of the Source was to the '97 re-release, if at all.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I don't think there is any difference at all. It should either be disqualified or #1 in my opinion - I'm equally happy with either!

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Your Kisses... is so much better than Pull Shapes. Though the latter does sound like a 1980s version of the 50s.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Percentage of vote seems more intuitively the right way to rank them.

God I hate the way 'Crazy' has swept the board this year by dint of being a song absolutely everyone thinks is OKish.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Percentage of vote seems more intuitively the right way to rank them.'

no because then songs in a poll with only 20 voters might place higher than songs in a poll with 35 voters and i wanted it to be as consensus as possible.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I'm with Lex (why should something not liked by so many from a larger voting set be ranked higher?), though possibly some compromise is even better - %age times number of votes?

As for Crazy, it was my third or fourth favourite single of the year (and much my favourite TOTP moment)(and my favourite chart single of the year - Marit Larsen didn't crack the top 40), so it's by no means merely okay by everyone.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'why should something not liked by so many from a larger voting set be ranked higher?'

it's a bit like when a team from one champions league group qualifies with 7 points but a team in another group fails to qualify with 8 points...

with hindsight, i should not have put them in blocks.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

But still, like only 27 people voted in the June poll for some reason so it would have been actually impossible for "Maneater" to be number one over "LDN". Whereas 40 people voted in September so "Promiscuous" rates equal to "Maneater", even though fewer than 2/3 of poptimists find it any good at all.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

but it can't be helped if you get different numbers of people voting month to month - tho i wish it had been more consistent obv.

the idea of ranking 'Promiscuous' higher than 'Maneater' is just based on the belief that a larger electorate adds value to a song's score itself. otherwise you could've had just 1 person voting one month, ticking everything and all of those songs consequently getting 100% and messing the whole thing up.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am doing the Grand Pazz And Jop Spreadsheet now and am using an adjusted percentage system. On the other hand that makes more sense on the P&J/canon 'perm N from X' voting system. On the OTHER other hand it means that in a weak year an OK song can outperform a good song in a strong year.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Incidentally the second weekly poll will be up tomorrow.

[koganbot]

One reason I wish you'd run this year's Jackin' Pop as your final P&J poll is that Gnarls would not be a shoo-in vs. Nelly or Justin or Cansei De Ser Sexy or The Knife (may even have trouble vs. Lily or Cassie, though my guess is that "Crazy" would beat "LDN" and "Me & U" soundly).

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I am holding off in case Glenn McDonald (or someone) is enough of a mentalist to attempt to combine the P&J and JP data sets this year.

[koganbot]

People like me possibly screw things up for Glenn by posting nonidentical lists for each (I'm sure there are ways to take this into account, if he wants to go to half votes and the like; or he could simply choose to discard one of the ballots arbitrarily).

thinking about math too much

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

In a certain sense, if people didn't vote in the poll, that's a bit like them voting "no" to everything. Of course, the group has also grown over the year, so there were more potential voters at the end of the year than the beginning, making February's songs almost by definition "not as good" as November's.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I really wish all the polls had been tagged properly so it was possible to go back and look at them all at once without trawling through everything else!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ie please to bear in mind for 07, also when is the next poll?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow. And yes I will try my best to remember the tagging.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

well we're not doing this one anymore anyway, but yes sorry for not tagging it.

[koganbot]

Highest-ranking song that I've not heard; Go Team "Ladyflash" (well, I'm listening to it right now). But I only heard "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'," "Red Dress," and "Lipstick" once or twice.

Percentage would seem more meaningful; I don't disagree with Steve's reasons for going with vote totals, I just don't rank these reasons as high. Another problem is there's no way to distinguish nonticks due to disliking a song from nonticks due to not having heard it. Presumably, tracks that charted lower and tracks that tend not to be part of the Poptimists convo don't get heard by as many people, and tracks that don't get played in the U.S. tend to not get heard by voters in the U.S.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

My dream improvement for LiveJournal (aside from the 50+ threading thing) would be a table option on polls, so you could have simple Yes/No/Don't Know answers for battery questions like song-list polls.

[koganbot]

My other dream improvement would be to have a new answers list.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

jauntyalan was talking about building a script that would do this! But either he hasn't had time or it turned out to be too difficult.

R&B dominates this list

[koganbot]

R&b dominates this list. Am I correct in thinking that it didn't dominate the actual Brit charts, or at least not to nearly such an extent? (And of course there's little on here, whether considered r&b or not, that isn't influenced by past versions of r&b.)

Re: R&B dominates this list

[koganbot]

But then again, the UK singles list being based on sales only, one wonders about its relation to actual popularity (the era of downloads give it more of a connection, but the big commercial unit is still the album, though who knows how much longer that will last; the thing is, there are demographic differences between who buys which format).

Re: R&B dominates this list

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

yes, for example in my (urban) experience R&B ringtones seems far more popular and prevalent than other genres.

Re: R&B dominates this list

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Am I correct in thinking that it didn't dominate the actual Brit charts
I don't think you are correct here, if highest chart placings are anything to go by. Stats to follow imminently.

Highest chart placings for the Top 46

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

1. Lily Allen - LDN = #6
2. Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh = #3
3. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy = #1
4. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous = #3
5. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man = #2
6. Nelly Furtado - Maneater = #1
7. The Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' = #1
8. Lily Allen - Smile = #1
9. Justin Timberlake - Sexyback = #1
10. Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind = #5
11. Rihanna - S.O.S. = #2
12. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes = #26
13. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends = #20
14. Kelis ft. Too Short - Bossy = #22
15. Jamelia - Beware Of The Dog = #10
16. Sugababes - Red Dress = #4
17. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces = #10
18. Alesha - Lipstick = #14
19. Beyonce ft. Jay-Z - Déjà Vu = #1
20. Beyonce - Irreplaceable = #4
21. Amy Winehouse - Rehab = #7
22. The Go Team - Ladyflash = #26
23. Belle & Sebastian - Funny Little Frog = #13
24. Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History = #6
25. Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy = #27
26. Fergie - London Bridge = #3
27. Cassie - Me And U = #6
28. The Pet Shop Boys - I'm With Stupid = #8
29. Hot Chip - Boy From School = #40
30. Gwen Stefani - Wind It Up = #3
31. Girls Aloud - I Think We're Alone Now = #4
32. Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse = #15
33. Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah = #25
34. Madonna - Sorry = #1
35. All Saints - Rock Steady = #3
36. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Make-Up = #28
37. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole = #4
38. The Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me = #35
39. Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen / L Wells = #14
40. Hot Chip - Over And Over = #27
41. Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. - My Love = #2
42. Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child = #3
43. Madonna - Get Together = #7
44. Missy Elliott - We Run This = #38
45. Similou - All This Love = #20
The real 46. Cassie - Long Way 2 Go (stevem didn't tabulate my late tick for this) = #12

This suggests R&B was generally as popular with the UK population as a whole as it was amongst poptimists, while indie and rock records fared rather better with poptimists than with the record-buying public in general.

Re: Highest chart placings for the Top 46

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

unfortunately it seems to correlate with the 'r&b is okay as a few singles but nobody really wants a whole album of it unlikes Snow Patrol etc.'. BAH.

Not super legible, but playing with numbers is more fun than formatting

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Artist / Song / Weighted Score / Alternate / Official
Nelly Furtado / Maneater / 25.038 / 1 / 6
Gnarls Barkley / Crazy / 24.500 / 2 / 3
Girls Aloud / Something Kinda Oooh / 23.744 / 3 / 2
Lily Allen / LDN / 21.576 / 4 / 1
Christina Aguilera / Ain't No Other Man / 19.890 / 5 / 5
Rihanna / SOS / 18.576 / 6 / 11
Justin Timberlake / Sexyback / 16.944 / 7 / 9
Paris Hilton / Stars Are Blind / 16.944 / 8 / 10
Nelly Furtado / Promiscuous / 16.900 / 9 / 4
Lily Allen / Smile / 16.008 / 10 / 8
Scissor Sisters / I Don't Feel Like / 15.625 / 11 / 7
Pipettes / Pull Shapes / 15.111 / 12 / 12
Sugababes / Red Dress / 15.048 / 13 / 16
Jamelia / Beware of the Dog / 14.217 / 14 / 15
Justice vs. Simian / We Are Your Friends / 13.838 / 15 / 13
The Go Team / Ladyflash / 13.500 / 16 / 22
Girls Aloud / Whole Lotta History / 12.036 / 17 / 24
Madonna / Sorry / 11.136 / 18 / 34
All Saints / Rock Steady / 11.136 / 19 / 35
Kelis ft. Too Short / Bossy / 11.025 / 20 / 14
Goldfrapp / Ride A White Horse / 10.672 / 21 / 32
Lordi / Hard Rock Hallelujah / 10.672 / 22 / 33
Beyonce / Irreplaceable / 9.810 / 23 / 20
Amy Winehouse / Rehab / 9.810 / 24 / 21
Justin Timberlake ft. T.I. / My Love / 9.780 / 25 / 41
Gnarls Barkley / Smiley Faces / 9.522 / 26 / 17
Alesha / Lipstick / 9.522 / 27 / 18
Beyonce ft. Jay-Z / déjà vu / 9.522 / 28 / 19
Hot Chip / Over And Over / 9.375 / 29 / 40
Belle & Sebastian / Funny Little Frog / 9.316 / 30 / 23
Girls Aloud / I Think We're Alone Now / 8.528 / 31 / 31
Delays / Valentine / 8.526 / 32 / 46
Sugababes / Easy / 8.526 / 33 / 47
Take That / Patience / 8.526 / 34 / 48
Gwen Stefani / Wind It Up / 8.256 / 35 / 30
The Pet Shop Boys / I'm With Stupid / 8.000 / 36 / 28
Hot Chip / Boy From School / 8.000 / 37 / 29
Cassie / Me And U / 7.536 / 38 / 27
The Pipettes / Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me / 7.260 / 39 / 38
Franz Ferdinand / The Fallen / L Wells / 7.260 / 40 / 39
Kelly Clarkson / Walk Away / 7.046 / 41 / 67
Similou / All This Love / 6.538 / 42 / 45
Basement Jaxx / Hush Boy / 6.400 / 43 / 25
Fergie / London Bridge / 6.400 / 44 / 26
The Ordinary Boys ft. Lady Sovereign / Nine 2 Five / 6.264 / 45 / 72
The Long Blondes / Weekend Without Make-Up / 6.255 / 46 / 36
Muse / Supermassive Black Hole / 6.255 / 47 / 37
Madonna / Get Together / 5.768 / 48 / 43
Missy Elliott / We Run This / 5.768 / 49 / 44
Shakira ft. Wyclef / Hips Don't Lie / 5.760 / 50 / 71
Jose Gonzalez / Heartbeats / 5.629 / 51 / 63
Cassie / Long Way To Go / 5.629 / 52 / 64
Lil Chris / Gettin' Enough / 5.629 / 53 / 65
Lily Allen / Littlest Things / 5.629 / 54 / 66
Rogue Traders / Voodoo Child / 5.600 / 55 / 42
Mylo ft. Freeform Five / Muscle Car / 5.447 / 56 / 60
Will Young / All Time Love / 5.447 / 57 / 61
Belle & Sebastian / The Blues Are Still Blue / 5.447 / 58 / 62
Streets / When You Wasn't Famous / 5.278 / 59 / 53
The Raconteurs / Steady As She Goes / 5.278 / 60 / 54
LL Cool J ft. Jennifer Lopez / Control Myself / 5.278 / 61 / 55
Sigur Ros / Hoppipolla / 5.278 / 62 / 56
Daz Sampson / Teenage Life / 5.278 / 63 / 57
Christina Milian ft. Young Jeezy / Say I / 5.278 / 64 / 58
Busta Rhymes / Touch It / 5.278 / 65 / 59
My Chemical Romance / Welcome To The Black Parade / 5.122 / 66 / 52
Ashlee Simpson / Boyfriend / 5.038 / 67 / 80
Shakira / Don't Bother / 5.038 / 68 / 81
The Automatic / Monster / 5.038 / 69 / 82
Peter, Bjorn & John / Young Folks / 4.966 / 70 / 51
T.I. / Why You Wanna / 4.840 / 71 / 79
Sway / Little Derek / 4.644 / 72 / 70
Franz Ferdinand / Eleanor Put Your Boots On / 4.404 / 73 / 69
Lil Chris / Checkin It Out / 4.329 / 74 / 50
Jamelia / Something About You / 4.225 / 75 / 49
The Source ft. Candi Staton / You Got The Love (Voyager remix) / 4.170 / 76 / 94
Gorillaz / Kids With Guns / El Manana / 4.170 / 77 / 95
Infernal / From Paris To Berlin / 4.170 / 78 / 96
Pink / U And Ur Hand / 4.037 / 79 / 78
Dannii Minogue / So Under Pressure / 4.000 / 80 / 93
Beyonce Knowles ft. Slim Thug / Check On It / 3.905 / 81 / 77
Pink / Stupid Girls / 3.784 / 82 / 75
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs / Gold Lion / 3.784 / 83 / 76

And the last batch

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

The Futureheads / Skip To The End / 3.700 / 84 / 91
Paul Oakenfold / Faster Kill Pussycat / 3.700 / 85 / 92
Guillemots / Trains To Brazil / 3.696 / 86 / 68
The Pet Shop Boys / Minimal / 3.564 / 87 / 74
Kanye West ft. Adam Levine / Heard 'Em Say / 3.330 / 88 / 90
Will Young / Who Am I / 3.120 / 89 / 86
Beatfreakz / Somebody's Watching Me / 3.120 / 90 / 87
Nina Simone / Ain't Got No…(I've Got Life) / 3.120 / 91 / 88
Goldfrapp / Fly Me Away / 3.120 / 92 / 89
Robbie Williams / Rudebox / 3.025 / 93 / 73
The Pussycat Dolls ft. Snoop Dogg / Buttons / 2.780 / 94 / 84
Guillemots / Made-Up Love Song #43 / 2.780 / 95 / 85
The Pussycat Dolls / I Don't Need A Man / 2.560 / 96 / 83
Kelly Clarkson / Breakaway / 2.250 / 97 / 100
Rihanna / Unfaithful / 2.097 / 98 / 99
Lupe Fiasco ft. Jill Scott / Daydreamin' / 2.079 / 99 / 98
The Rapture / Get Myself Into It / 2.025 / 100 / 97

Sorry it's not the easiest to read, but you can figure it out - the songs are listed in "alternate" order, and the last number in each line shows their "official" chart position.

Re: And the last batch

[koganbot]

Blue, what was your weighting formula?

Re: And the last batch

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Sorry - kept having to chop out characters to fix into LJ's limit. Weighting was just as suggested above: Votes * % of Vote, so that just to give songs with more of a consensus a little boost. (I make no claims to statistical wizardry - I'm sure there are problems with that as well.)